The Idea of India: Bharat as a Civilisation

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The Idea of India is a condensation of new research that provides an authentic picture of what India meant to its own people and those living in West Asia, Europe, and East Asia. The evidence provided in the book also touches upon India's contributions to world science and its influence on its neighbors. It also has translation of nine popular Ṛgvedic hymns as well as an essay on Yoga.

Subhash Kak is Regents Professor at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater and Distinguished Academic Scholar at Chapman University in Orange, California. His research is in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and history of Indian science. He is a member of Indian Prime Minister's Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council. He is the author of over 25 books and discoverer of a long-lost astronomy of the Rgvedic times.

India is not just a geographical space, it is also a civilizational force. its geography may have shrunk over the past several centuries, but its ideas are spreading to all corners of the world. India is like the moon seen in water that is broken and broken again by the ripples, yet still remains.

India's recent political history has been a continuing struggle to gain independence from another idea of India that was imposed on it by colonial scholars and administrators, and later uncritically perpetuated after the gaining of political independence.

India's experience of the British Raj was disastrous as it led to the destruction of native industry and education systems.' India was the world's leading nation in science before the Middle Ages, and it is estimated that India's share of world trade in 1800, although down from about 40 percent eight centuries earlier, was still about 20 to 25 percent.

When the mechanization brought about by the industrial revolution gave their own textiles a cost advantage, the British made sure that India was not provided the resources to build its own factories. As India became deindustrialized, it turned into a huge monopoly market for British products. British Raj made token investments in science and technology. India's share of the world economy dropped' to about 1.4% by 1914.

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